Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker

active externalism, adam smith, Adams & Aizawa, advances in austrian econmics, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, austrian economics, collective intentionality, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, free-flow of knowledge, hayek, iterative knowledge, open access, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, richard stallman, science, scientific publishing, social constructivism, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, systemsoriented social epistemology, The Knowledge Hub for Pathology

My talk “Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker” for the 2010 Wirth Conference at Simon Fraser University October 15 & 16, 2010 on “Austrian Views on Experts & Epistemic Monopolies.”  I think the talk went down OK. Good to see some old friends and make new friends. Thanks to Wirth for sponsoring the event, to our local SFU host Laurent Dobuzinskis and to Roger Koppl and Steve Horwitz for organizing it.

All the participants

A conference room with a view. Delightfully unusual weather through.

Rob Wilson – Mind Spread

Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, individual, mind spread, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, robert wilson, social psychology, sociobiology, sociology

Tune into the live stream of Rob Wilson’s keynote talk at the ARPA. Rob is of course the author of the excellent Boundaries of the Mind.

Extended Mind Down Under

active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognitive science, cognitive systems, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, john sutton, philosophy of mind, richard menary

Here is a discussion between two of the major players in the extended mind literature – John Sutton and Richard Menary.

“Some philosophers are now arguing that thoughts are not all in the head” – it’s been at least 12 years! But the idea is now spreading like wildfire.

All about me: Disclosure in online social networking profiles: The case of FACEBOOK

Amanda Nosko, constructivism, disclosure, Eileen Wooda, facebook, philosophy of social science, privacy, psychology, recommendation algorithm, Seija Molema, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, social identity, social networking, social ontology, social psychology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, trust, truth

With today’s release of the film The Social Network some might be interested in a recent academic study published in Computers in Human Behavior.

Big Thinkers: Dennett

breaking the spell, Christopher Hitchens, cognitive science, consciousness, consciousness explained, Dennett, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, freedom evolves, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, religion, sweet dreams

Here is a programme featuring Dennett that I hadn’t heretofore come across. Glad to see Dennett as busy and pugnacious as ever after his health scare a while back which he amusingly talks about here. Speaking of health, here is Dennett on Christopher Hitchens.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and Social Context in Shaping Consciousness

active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, extended mind, externalism, Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, philosophy of mind

My chum Mirko Farina has alerted me to a high-powered collection he and co-author Julian Kiverstein are contributing to. Here is the table of contents. One of the intriguing chapter titles is by Andy Clark. (Mirko tells me the volume has been severely delayed). I’m also looking forward to Mirko’s review of another contributor to this volume – Nivedita Gangopadhya’s co-edited Perception, action, and consciousness Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems.

Searle’s Latest

aggregation, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, consciousness, institutions, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

Here’s a review of Searle’s Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization.